There is no shortage of drama in the bitcoin world these days, that much is certain. SegWit and Unlimited are still dominating news headlines these days It is rather troublesome to see so many miners still not signaling either solution, though. After all, there is no shortage of potential bitcoin scaling solutions right now, to say the least.
Indecisive Bitcoin Miners Pose A Problem
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The Bitcoin ecosystem is divided into multiple camps. With the lingering scalability issues, and other proposals representing an immediate solution to this problem, there is an interesting mid shift taking place. As it turns out, the majority of miners is still supporting Bitcoin Core in the block size debate. But they are losing ground at a rapid pace.
Right now, there are different proposals on...

Bitcoin price has been exhibiting a downward trend from the past few days. The fall in Bitcoin price is attributed to uncertainties regarding the outcome of the meeting between Bitcoin Core developer group and miners.
With the miners and developers continuing their meeting behind closed doors to discuss the future of Bitcoin, the digital currency community is left speculating about the future o...

Bitcoin enthusiasts who have been looking at the price charts will have noticed things are heading in the wrong direction. The meeting between Bitcoin miners and Core developers is causing a lot of concern right now, resulting in a Bitcoin price crash. These closed-door meetings are having a similar effect every time they take place, though.
It is not the first time Bitcoin Core developers and...

People always want to get the most out of their bitcoin mining rigs and rightly so. The difficulty levels of bitcoin algorithm are increasing daily and mining has become a competitive affair. Those who discover fresh blocks stand to gain the bitcoin network reward. In order to discover new blocks, the mining chips have to be able to generate enough processing power to break the encryption protoco...

The folks over at CoinTerra today announced the shipment of their 1,000th TerraMiner bitcoin miner, less than a month following the first delivery of the powerful device.
In that time frame, TerraMiner units are responsible for 1.7 Petahash of mining power by CoinTerra's estimation -- over 6 percent of the bitcoin network.
"We handed over the very first TerraMiner to a customer at the end of J...

Not terribly long ago, a news story circulated on the bitcoinosphere of a new bitcoin mining hardware company called Boscombe Pierlytic Miners. The company announced three miners with impressive specifications and even opened up pre-ordering.
Following the story, however, word began to spread that the Boscombe operation was nothing more than a scam. There's an entire thread on Bitcointalk dedica...

You know how your mother has seemingly fifteen different toolbars installed on her web browser? One or more of them could potentially be mining bitcoins secretly in the background, according to Malwarebytes.
Except in these cases, the bitcoins (or possibly altcoins) aren't going to the user of the computer. They're going to criminals potentially on the other side of the planet. It's an elaborat...

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